Caught Quotes

• Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Player, Rays, Attention

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• I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

  Tony Curtis

  Funny Love, Wife, Enough

  "Tony Curtis dies aged 85" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Expression, Design

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Artist, Inspire

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Summer, Winter, Keeping Promises

  "Chicago Daily News" Newspaper, February 20, 1958.

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• Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911). “From Day to Day with Holmes”

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• American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

  Tom Holt

  Perfect, Tea, Style

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• Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Habit, Bad Habits

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• MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

  Eddie Izzard

  Police, Ironic, Tests

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• I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Storm, Hail, Jackasses

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• Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, Ideas, Long

  News Conference, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Iron

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• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  Lana Turner

  Earrings, Loses

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• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Golf, Should

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Education, Learning, Curiosity

  Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.

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• When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination, Business, Believe

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

  Don Hutson

  Basketball, Practice, Games

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• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  Wally Lamb

  Attention, Stories, Hardship

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• God finally caught his eye.

  George S. Kaufman

  Eye, His Eyes, Waiter

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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